Top Docs

Silicon Valley's Best Physicians, Selected by their Peers

WHEN AUTHOR/ATTORNEY GREGORY White Smith was diagnosed with a terminal illness in 1986, he thought he'd exhausted his last avenue of treatment. Then actor Charles Grodin came along. "No one's got the last word," he told Smith. "There are all kinds of things out there, and you've got to take the initiative and find them."

Smith took the initiative. He found an alternative treatment for his cancer and the inspiration for his user's guide to health care, The Best Doctors in America. Last year, we published the names of some 160 doctors that Smith's firm, Woodward/White Inc., of Aiken, South Carolina, deemed the best in Silicon Valley. Woodward/White compiled the list by polling thousands of doctors and asking, "If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty and you couldn't treat them yourself, to whom would you refer them?"

This year, we called the top doctors ourselves. We spoke to assistants, scheduling nurses and answering machines. We waded through the inevitable phone trees and waited on hold. We listened to Muzak so you wouldn't have to.

The result? A list of more than 300 of the area's best physicians and health care professionals, as judged by their peers. If your doctor's name isn't here, don't despair. While the list may represent the Valley's best, having a physician whose judgment and expertise you trust matters more than inclusion on anyone's list. But if you're looking for a doctor and you don't know where to turn, flip through these pages first. Word of mouth may well be the best form of recommendation, and our recommendations come straight from the horse's-or in this case, the doctor's - mouth.

 

Ophthalmology  
David Frederick Chang
El Camino Hospital/Camino Health Care System
762 Altos Oaks Drive, Suite One
Los Altos, CA 94024
Tel: 650-948-9123